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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Born: November 5, 1850
Died: October 30, 1919 (aged 68)
Bio: Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone".
Known for:
- Poems of Passion (1883)
- Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Maurine and Other Poems (1882)
- Poems of pleasure.. (1888)
- Poems of Power (1901)
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